Advises several PhD students, Master's students, and research assistants/interns. Alumni have achieved significant success, such as becoming research scientists or professors at other institutions.
Research Experience
Co-leads the McGill NLP Group. Was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Education
PhD from the University of Edinburgh and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Background
Research interests include representation learning for language with a specific focus on reasoning, grounding, conversational modeling, and safety. Currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Linguistics at McGill University, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, a core faculty member of Mila Quebec AI Institute, and a research scientist at ServiceNow Research.